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For the first time, Astral Horizon Press have brought together the best of his work into an anthology Planely Schmitz.
Modern Civil Airliners is the one-stop reference for major airliners in service worldwide. Its 176 pages cover 40 airliner types, mostly in a four-page-per-type format that combines beautiful photography with data and a concise history.
This book is a handy, pocket-sized guide to the tail colors used by airliners from every corner of the globe making it a useful basic aid to the recognition of those individual airlines. The first edition of this best-selling, popular and accessible guide
Jetliners Of The Red Star goes behind the Iron Curtain to tell the story of the jet airliners of the Soviet Union.The Tu-104, Tu-124, Tu-134, supersonic Tu-144, Tu-154, Tu-204, the Ilyushin Il-62, Il-86 and Il-96, and Yakovlev Yak-40 and Yak-42 get a chap
Flying Above the Glass Ceiling chronicles the accomplishments of pioneering women flyers and distaff members of the aviation industry from the 1800s to the present, noting their specific struggles because they entered a man's profession! Their personal st
Published March 2023, 242 pages, many colour photographs, softcover, 5 1/4" x 8 1/2" inches
Training ground of heroes and daredevils. Transportation hub to the nation. Learn why Midway Airport may be Chicago's most overlooked treasure and the country's most historic airport with this collection of oral histories, historic narrative, and fascinat
Between 1967 and 1997 Keith Spragg progressed from the greenest new co-pilot on a piston-engined Vickers Viking to a fully qualified jet captain. He then went on to become an experienced pilot trainer and examiner. The story of that journey, told in I Hav
This is the story of Charlottetown native, Carl F. Burke, who went from selling radios in a hardware store for $12.00 an hour to founding Maritime Central Airways, acquiring Nordair and becoming one of Canada's most successful aviation entrepreneurs.
24 pages, black & white photographs, 44 colour profiles, colour multi views, 1:72 scale plans, unit list, line drawings, model kit and decal list, softcover, A4 format, 21 cm x 29.7 cm
Published October 2006, 184 pages,30 black & white photographs, map, glossary, index, softcover, 6"x 9" inches
This fascinating collection of airline tickets spans the history of air travel. From flagship megabrands like Pan Am and BOAC to some of the least known airlines flying to the most obscure corners of the world.
A nostalgic, photographic look at some of the great classic propeller driven aircraft as they operate around the world. Covers 75 years of the Douglas DC 3 and its turboprop conversions through de Havilland Canada's ageless pair of Beaver and Twin Otter
The book is a series of short stories, a “memoir in anecdotes” that follows the author through his early years as a youngster in Toronto, on to Military College and Air Force flight training and then through a broad spectrum of professional aviation endi
Drawn from the files of English, American, New Zealand, Australian and Canadian sources, as well as from veterans, this is the story of Lockheed's Lucky Star-the marvelous Ventura! Fashioned from the Lockheed Model 18 airliner, the Ventura went on to figh
Published 2015, 128 pages, black & white and colour photographs, softcover, 5 1/4" x 8 1/2" inches.
This book collects some of the finest writings, both fact and realistic fiction, to lay bare the drama of human beings coping with the skills needed to direct their machines through the vastness of the skies. With contributions from: Charles Lindbergh, Er
DC-3 pilots share their tales of a remarkable era of aviation and the early airlines, while flying for Frontier from 1946–1986.
Following the success of Tickets Please, here is a new collection of airline tickets spanning the modern history of travel, once again curated by Sebastian Schmitz and this time drawing exclusively from the collection of Athanasios Gklavas, perhaps the wo
Together We Fly: Voices From the DC-3 is the story of an aircraft like none other—a true legend, the icon of an industry and one of the most recognized aircraft in history. Today, over 75 years after her first flight, the DC-3 graces the skies of the 21st
Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail brings us an extraordinarily intimate, engaging and all-encompassing chronicle of Canadian flight north of the 60th parallel. Metcalfe-Chenail proves herself a remarkable historian and writer,...........
In late 1941, President Roosevelt agonized over the rapid advances of the Japanese forces in Asia, they seemed unstoppable. He foresaw their intentions of taking India and linking up with the two other Axis Powers, Germany and Italy, in an attempt to conq
Air Tindi Story: Flying the Burgundy Tail for 30 Years
Published 2018, 98 pages. black & white and colour photographs, hardcover, 11 1/4" x 8 3/4"